I am drinking a Oolong Darjeeling right now (sampler pack from Adagio) and I like it very much. I am new to teas in general and Oolongs in particular, so I am trying to get a feeling for what I might like.

I am drinking Qian Li Xiang (thousand mile fragrance) from Tead off. It's a great tea that can last a whole day of drinking. I didn't see this tea often even in China's market, and most of the time when I saw it in China, it was light roast. But this one is heavy roast after some resting, starting with warm floral fragrant and ending with strong throat feeling. Many thanks to Tead off! I feel very luck to have it

And I want to mention the cute paper pack. It's the traditional way of packing tea, not commonly seen anymore. I admired it for quite a while before opening it

gingko wrote:I am drinking Qian Li Xiang (thousand mile fragrance) from Tead off. It's a great tea that can last a whole day of drinking. I didn't see this tea often even in China's market, and most of the time when I saw it in China, it was light roast. But this one is heavy roast after some resting, starting with warm floral fragrant and ending with strong throat feeling. Many thanks to Tead off! I feel very luck to have it

And I want to mention the cute paper pack. It's the traditional way of packing tea, not commonly seen anymore. I admired it for quite a while before opening it

Gingko that cute paper pack looks very familiar

Its a good thing Tead Off didn't tell me what was inside before it was shipped

gingko wrote:I am drinking Qian Li Xiang (thousand mile fragrance) from Tead off. It's a great tea that can last a whole day of drinking. I didn't see this tea often even in China's market, and most of the time when I saw it in China, it was light roast. But this one is heavy roast after some resting, starting with warm floral fragrant and ending with strong throat feeling. Many thanks to Tead off! I feel very luck to have it

Jealous, and love the old style paper packaging. I've had a couple of Qian Li Xiangs - one a smaller-leaf high-fire one from Best Tea House (HK / Canada), and one a light - medium fire one from a factory in Wuyishan. Haven't drank the former in a while, but I remember enjoying it quite a bit.

Tead off, I wonder what other rare varietals are in your favorite 90 year old tea store!

Last time I saw a book written by Luo Shengcai (a Wuyi expert, I have a tea made by him which is great), with summaries of most Wuyi varietals (70 or so). I may get it later (hesitated because it's quite expensive for its size, probably due to small number of copies published). My first thought was, wouldn't it be painful to know these many varietals just within Wuyi, since many of them would be hard to get

It seems the major choices here are Wuyi teas, mainly Da Hong Pao. The Chao Zhou people here seem crazy about these teas but I've yet to taste a really high quality DHP here. I do have some leads that I will be checking out with my new tea brother here, Mz5, that could be interesting. Many hidden places in Chinatown. Methinks there are no good DHP's except very high end ones. Most of it isn't very good, IMO. They probably shouldn't even call it Rock tea.

The 90 year old seller also has a Shui Xian that they roast themselves, I believe. All their teas are heavy roasted but the SX has some interesting flavors not found in DHP. Down the street there is a Rou Gui worthy of a bag but more expensive than all the others. I will keep you up to date as to what I find.

xiao hong pao from jingteashop. Its definatly worth trying if you like DHP. Its similar to there seasonal DHP but with more complexity and hints of honey and nutty taste in the back. It smell delicious too